{"id":230110,"date":"2022-06-30T09:26:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/443-new-covid-19-cases-reported\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:26:08","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T07:26:08","slug":"443-new-covid-19-cases-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/443-new-covid-19-cases-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"443 new COVID-19 cases reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sanews.gov.za\/sites\/default\/files\/2012\/images\/newsstorytemplate\/202206\/covidtestdreadloclady.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>South Africa has recorded 443 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 993 444.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This increase represents a 3.9% positivity rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Health has reported 19 deaths, and of these, two occurred in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 101,764 to date,\u201d the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa has to date conducted 25 720 034 tests in both public and private sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of new cases today are from Gauteng (37%) followed by Western Cape (19%).<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal accounted for 15%; Eastern Cape accounted for 10%; Free State accounted for 5%; Mpumalanga and North West accounted for 4% each respectively, Northern Cape and Limpopo each accounted for 3% of the cases respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proportion of positive new cases\/total new tested today is (3.9%), and is higher than yesterday (3.3%). The 7-day average is (5.1%) today, and is lower than yesterday (5.3%),\u201d the NICD said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>There has been an increase of 18 hospital admissions in the past 24 hours. \u2013<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa has recorded 443 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of laboratory-confirmed cases to 3 993 444.&nbsp; This increase represents a 3.9% positivity rate. \u201cThe Department of Health has reported 19 deaths, and of these, two occurred in the past 24-48 hours. This brings the total fatalities to 101,764 to date,\u201d the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-230110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/443-new-covid-19-cases-reported.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}